Bill Frisell 'Just Like A Woman'

[sammusicdude]

Riddle me this: Is it humanly possible that one person can dislike this? let alone NINE? HE'S AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[PeteD1884]

I like Bill Frisell's music. I sometimes wonder how I would feel about this performance if I weren't also a Dylan fan who knows the words to this song.

[Dozzerdog1]

Love it!

[loyeti71]

Poesia pura...non ho parole...ancora più evocativa della versione contenuta in have a little faith. Bill...è unico

[kinoglaz777]

It's a very great video... but please, post it in sync. It's a bit out and that's a very pity.

I don't like to make such a comment.. but it is sufficient to put it in Premiere or Final Cut and sync the waveform on the movement... the easier way to get it done, is on the first pick strike he makes on the E before he starts to play effectively.

[guyleclairemusic]

Hi Bill, so beautiful, and i love you!

[5150zombie]

good rep of the song done solo. In my head it belongs in an eastwood western at a soft spot.

[GuitarGare]

I heard "Good Dog Happy Man" for the first time about 7 years ago, I think.

As near as I can tell, if I had to describe what Bill is all about, or on about...

I would have to describe this as "contemplative." This is not note for note rehearsed, and then performed. This is "NEVER STOP SEARCHING" right in front of people, if need be. The "cover material" is just a framework for his expression. He's counting on your frame of reference as merely a spring board...words fail me otherwise.

[Ulikses]

just BS....

[ballersack]

I can't believe he was in naked city.

[alyoshaproductions]

Just as right on as the lyrics.

[vanhouses]

Es un músico que te atrapa con su forma tan original de tocar la guitarra. Gracias por crear música diferente.

[ilikemike97]

I HAVE been listening to jazz 4 more than 35 years and this guy (if this song is indicative of his talent) could not play his way out of a paper bag. Every tuesday night in chicago, they have guitar students from northern illinois university playing down @ the new apartment lounge (with other musicians)- on the worst night, the worst player can play better than this. it blows.

[racketlauncher]

@ilikemike97 Dude, music/art is not a pissing contest...It's about grace, feel, and vibe. These, of course, mean different things to different people, but Frisell GETS IT on so many different levels, I'm surprised you're not hearing it! Actually, when he wants to, he can make more noise than most people could imagine. The cat is deep, harmonically, melodically, sonically, and aesthetically! Time for some more exploration! There's more to life than notes that go twiddly, twiddly!

[fosbury68]

@ilikemike97

sad about your tin ear. sounds like a permanent condition.

[zombieraddish]

@ilikemike97 What noteworthy guitarist do you consider to be exceptional? I dont have a good frame of reference as far as your taste is concerned.

[53160]

@ilikemike97 I lol'd

[bigtophalloween]

Bill Frisell is one of the most unique and original voices of modern guitar. I'm always amazed at how he's able to translate music into his own idiom and make it something entirely new.

[53160]

Incredible sound and very emphatic. Bill Frisell has his glowing moments, this is one.

[frank12344321ful]

kinaski1 - yer im from the uk (lincs) - if you do manage to get a recording, i would deff like a copy! I would of gone to London to see frisel - I always miss the gigs i would really like to go to!

[jbobjerew]

@frank12344321ful where in lincs are you from? do you know pat mccarthy?

[frank12344321ful]

@jbobjerew yepp, I know Pat McCarthy. He was my teacher, lol. If you know him then I prob know you! Im not in Lincs at the mo but Im their alot. Whats your name if you dont mind me asking?

[massi61ify]

bellissimo..

[ThumberStrummer]

I've seen his show al La Villette in Paris, maybe 6-8 years ago, or even more. It was an all-acoustic gig, and a slide guitarist whose name I don't remember was in the band, making its contribuition to build that unconventional poetic and a little sad Bill's sound that's still alive in this video. I think Frisell is a giant in contemporary music, and such a great musical sensivity makes me feel closer to the real sense of our presence on earth.

[giozzu]

w bob dylan!

[kinaski1]

Hey guys, any frisell fans from UK? I saw him in London with BBC symphony orchestra last week and it was amazing. The recording will be on BBC radio3 for 3 more days, I tried to download it with bbc iplayer but I couldn't. If there's anyone who could do it and save it, it would be of a great value, because this one-off perfromance was so brilliant and unique.

Thanks!!!

[JamKar1]

He has been called

'an American treasure', which I think is an understatement.

[kdheithaus]

Thank you for posting this entire playlist - it's awesome!

[keyboardwhiz]

Made me feel very emotional.  Beautiful.

[gentlemandn]

wow your right... this is emotional

[IRTAMI]

He is such a genius musician, He drove me nuts for more than 2 month since I found him. More than 30 albums of pleasure.

[speakvisual]

Poetry.

[maddermaus]

I used to live across on off Congress Ave. across from the HEB in the 80's and we would walk to the Continental Club on the weekends to watch the shows. Looking back now it's amazing how many world class performers passed through this clubs stage. At the time we didn't think much of it. I live in New York now, I hope the club is still there.

[giantrobot9000]

I tend to play loud and fast, but this is the kind of playing that I actually like to listen to most of the time. Beautiful.

[Dflesh1]

this is from the continental club in Austin, Tx...it's a small club on Congress in Austin which has been rocking for years

[ppuljic]

tears upon tears...Bill just bleeds. A gentle soul that can lullaby or shred at a moments notice.

[bilo06]

a master musician who happens to play the guitar...

[witzthum6]

where is this video from? IS there more?

[davemja]

I agree ... Bill's timing and spacing is simply incredible. I am always blown away when I listen to him. Genius.

[RosicrucianAlchemy]

great tone-

[livndream4u2]

pronominal work! A real master of the guitar!!

[renaudmaret]

poetic guy

[sirelder]

are you being serious?

[jasoncasper16]

Amazing... His touch is just insane. Great time and approach to music making. Really almost like a pianist.

[urheadonastick]

Whats great about Bill is his timing, its so personal and out there, the slight hesitation before the beat or skipping the beat all together -very cool.

[vesevolo]

grande frissell!!!!!!!!!

[draftsmann]

Sound treatments, effects, call them what you will - they are as much musical instruments as the guitar itself, or the amplifier or speaker. The talent is in harnessing the various devices in tandem to produce the sounds in the musician's head. Bill Frisell is a remarkable musician by any standard.

[nsaumweber]

the man is poet. he hears the melody, the vocals , the backups, the notes that were written and the ones that were dreamt at the edge of midnight.

[BarmansFault]

well said!

[StephanNeeteneek]

Amazing. I love that song.

To the users commenting on Frisell's use of effects: I can only hear some reverb, giving a bit space to the performance. Anyway, most of the space is produced by drones. He always seems to have the open strings ringing. To me it's amazing how he a always get's his sound, no matter which guitar he is playing.

If you want to hear frisell really "dry" and even funky, check out the album "down home" by Joey Baron, featuring Ron Carter and Arthur Blythe.

[vanhouses]

El guitarrista más innovador de los últimos tiempos. Su estilo es único y unido a una sensibilidad exquisita. Gracias por regalarnos tú interpretación.

[ssandic]

looks like Frisell likes Dylan... second take I see he took on him... I'm in love with this guy's playing...

[martinfedyna]

GENIO!!!!

[pabloguzman85]

estoy de acuerdo papá!!

[dakcz]

Pure genius

[jazzalami]

Marvellous

[Blueslide]

This is a great lullabye

[dakcz]

Just wow. I love this man. Thanks for this beauty.

[tekdirekt]

Frisell has played on over 150 albums pretty amazing. Also the comment about the delay, it only repeats that which was executed by the player it in no way covers up inability dummy.Perhaps if you were a player you would know so silence you knucklehead

[2882890]

No it doesn't cover up inability, you're right, but it can add artificially an atmosphere to a piece that the musician didn't create themselves, and the goal of every musician is using their own talent and genius to create atmosphere. I understand what these people are saying.

[purpledaisy1957]

It's not that it "can" add... it does add. And the addition is deliberate by the musician. The use of pedals and effects is ancient. Watch even Jimmy Page. In this case, of this song, it creates a beautiful effect, as it was meant.

[macabre2007]

There is timing and dexterity to the use of effects, and it falls in the area of articulation. For instance if you discover all the ways you can use your fingers and plectrums to articulate your style, well effects add another level of articulation. Their music can remain melodically and harmonically constant, but the swell and shift of the effects adds variation.

[mara235]

This is pure beauty - musical rivers.  Thanks

[audiophile85]

excellent player. gonna check him out at the Lobero in Santa Barbara in January for sure.

but from everything i've heard it seems like he's always playing either country-roots-lite fusion stuff or new-agey stuff. does he ever play anything more straight-ahead?

[lucair9]

Bill started at Greely with me, I became a band director. He went on to Berkley in Boston. We were listening to Miles. He went and amazed his teachers Johnny Smith, hence (Shenendoa) and Buddy Baker, and most of all Dale Bruening. He became Bill Frissel. I am so glad I got to know him like .0001% I saw him in Anchorage doing the Farmer picture thing and even got to meet him. He was nice like Elvis, remembered me. I have been in cold storage in Alaska for 25 years.

[rotren]

Stellar musician. Stellar guitar player.

[brunsmike59]

Thanks so much for this. For those that don't like it and want more "technique," go watch Robert Conti's videos. Ridiculous technique, but for me, not a fraction of Frisell's musicality. His use of effects is up there with anyone in guitar history for augmenting his sound and creating a personal musical vision.

[thegreatpumpkin1313]

For Falconer to hate Frisell so much, he sure does have a lot of posts under the various Frisell vids on youtube. lol @ hide behind a delay pedal, truly ignorant, what else can be said. Don't think you're "shocking" anyone trying to be some Howard Stern wanna be on here, people who know jazz and who have an appreciation for this kind of music will read your posts and invariably shake their heads and say "what an idiot". Get a life kid, wake up.

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

10,000 views and the applause at the end are enough to suggest Frisell has fans. Does it matter that he rarely plays a zillion notes per second, that he draws out and relishes melody, a concept unheard of today, that he has a unique lyrical style with a call and response aspect to his playing.

He once said that he wasn't sure if he'd be able to play solo guitar and he's certainly no fingerstylist but I think he created a mesmerising atmosphere.

[hypno59]

It appears that some people don't recognize a genus in their midst

[Falconer1978]

Nothing quite like hiding behind a delay pedal huh? Fools the average music fan into thinking you have talent. What a bunch of crap!

[duanebroberg]

Are you fucking kidding me? Get your head out of your ass!

[Istolemyownusername]

there's no delay on this.

[Mick175d]

While Bill Frissell may be an acquired taste, I disagree that his use of effects in any way diminishes his talent. Like Miles Davis used a mute, and Jimi Hendrix used various pedals, Bill has created a signature sound using a combination of effects. Unless you can post a video demonstrating greater talent, I'd suggest that you receive treatment for your cranial-rectal condition.

[Falconer1978]

Cranial-rectal.... lol... I like that! I still think Frissell is crap, but that insult is pure gold!

[stereoroid]

Oh, ye of little... hearing.

[dfunked1]

I guess that delay pedal also fooled Dave Douglass, Paul Motian, John Zorn, Marc Johnson, and the countless other world class musicians that have collaborated with Frisell or hired him as a sideman.

[scottnewellguitar]

Well put, he's one of the most in-demand musicians around, and for a jazz guy that's really saying something these days.

[dfunked1]

Wow, I guess that delay pedal also fooled Dave Douglass, John Zorn, Paul Motian, and the countless other world class musicians that have collaborated with Frisell and/or used him as a sideman.

[GolfShoes]

your a fucking retard man, the fact that all you care about is talent is lame, listen to the music hes creating man, its not about how fast he can hit notes or any other retarded shit that you think is music, its about the vision, his music is like the american heartland to me, i see like montana hills or something man

[MesaBoogieF30]

Right...using some sort of effect pedal and thus creating an elusive atmosphere in his song to make it more...um I don't know, ethereal...is hiding and fooling people...

[pinholedstars]

so keep fooling me, hiding from me.

give me anything but "straight ahead".

[urheadonastick]

Effect are to musicians as colors are to an artist,playing and acoustic is likened to pencil and paper-trust me effects in the hands of a wanker only make him more of a wanker.Frisell is one of the very best guitarest/ improvisors in the world.

[MesaBoogieF30]

Can anyone say: "Sarcasm"??

[cosmojh]

What did "urheadonastick" say that was sarcastic?

[MesaBoogieF30]

I was being sarcastic. I love the tune, I really do...

[cosmojh]

Oh, you were referring to the title of the tune.

[twangbarfly]

@MesaBoogieF30 OK you were being sarcastic - anyway my remark wasn't aimed at you but at a certain perception of Bill's playing. To be honest I'm relieved to see you didn't mean all that :-)

[twangbarfly]

@MesaBoogieF30 Using an electric guitar and an amp is fooling people - and you should know with a name like that. So is producing videos and CDs and broadcasting concerts. Playing your guitar in the bathroom rather than the living room is too. I'm not interested in how it's done, I'm interested in what it sounds like. And this sounds just great to me. And anyone who thinks Bill's playing is all smoke and mirrors has never tried to play the guitar creatively.

[IrkSplat]

Bill Frisell uses sonic tools, yes. It's not hiding to use them.

[petegtr1971]

Sounds nogthing like a beginner to me.. The tone, beautiful phrases, dynamics... a master. Thank you for posting this!

[ErnestGaskin]

this guitar rifs sounds exactly like buckleys.

anyway, this perfectly suites my melancholic mood at the moment.

[YofterMofter]

The funny thing is, if you wouldn't know he's the big Bill Frisell, you'd say he's a beginner and gave him advices of what to improve.

[19Lotus67]

dipshit

[jazzguitar74]

proof that a good solo guitar arrangement doesn't have to be all block chords!

[dalejkemp]

simply amazing

[oscian777]

Thanks so much bathoshue for posting these. So glad someone appreciates this golden period of Bills.

[lax987]

yeea bill beastin it live

[orestory]

the cat is died? :-)

[RandyECombs]

Excellent

[YofterMofter]

He would be the best guitarist of Dead Can Dance.

[LobsterMassage]

words can't describe it...